Village Fête

Today was the village May Day fête. As expected on these days the weather was pretty awful - heavy rain followed by two minutes of blazing sun then hail (it's May, what's going on?!) and a bit more sun just to give you hope, but no, more rain.

It didn't deter people as many came out to see the floats, one from Beth's preschool - she did not want to go on it as she couldn't be a princess (the theme was books and that float was 101 Dalmatians). The other float was the church Sunday school one, they did the Mr. Men and there was also the May Queen/Princess float.

Grandma and grandad came down to spend the day and help with 'crowd control' as Steve is off doing the Trans Pennine Trail for charity. Due to the weather we didn't stay for too long but we did get to see the birds of prey rescue charity 'display' with an enormous owl (you can't really tell from the photo but it was about the same size as Toby!). We also had a go on the lucky dip, looked at the fire engine and had a poke around the stalls. One of the stalls was a specialty cheese company who made cheese wedding cakes - can't say that I would want one, brings a whole new meaning to nightmare weddings! It was a nice afternoon just a shame about the weather.